Is it possible to stream music from an account here? I would like to upload some music for my xanga, but it will take a while to try it myself, so i was just wondering if anyone else has actually tried it. Thanks! Aaron

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I think it's possible, I have tried that myself, and it's working fine

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It really depends what type of music you would like to stream. MP3 music, for example, can be streamed very easily from a website, as long as your website visitors have a plugin or program that can do this. For example, I believe the Quicktime player is able to stream MP3s off a website. Also, if you're savvy with Macromedia Flash, you can create a small flash animation that plays music as it downloads. Simply set the music you would like to stream to the appropriate keyframe and choose "stream" as the behaviour.

However, if you are interested in creating something a little bit more enterprising, such as an Internet radio station, I believe you'll need a server with different capabilities than what astahost is offering. Generally speaking, though, if you just want to have a little music to play while others view a page on your server, the setup should be alright.

As I'm not exceptionally familiar with the Terms of Service of Astahost, I can't tell whether streaming music off of this server to a web page on another server is legal. As far as I've been able to tell based on the combined TOS and AUP, there is no clause prohibiting you from doing so. I'm hoping that someone more familiar with the document can confirm this though.

I hope that helps; feel free to send me a private message if you'd like some help setting up the coding your Xanga page

 

 

 

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Hi guys,
Here are the rules, quoting from another post of mine:

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